Three web-based heuristics to determine a person's or institution's country of origin

We propose three heuristics to determine the country of origin of a person or institution via text-based IE from the Web. We evaluate all methods on a collection of music artists and bands, and show that some heuristics outperform earlier work on the topic by terms of coverage, while retaining similar precision levels. We further investigate an extension using country-specific synonym lists. Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.3.1 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Content Analysis and Indexing I.7.m [Document and Text Processing]: Web Mining General Terms: Algorithms, Measurement

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: SIGIR
• Authors: Markus Schedl, Klaus Seyerlehner, Dominik Schnitzer, Gerhard Widmer, Cornelia Schiketanz
• Keywords: Country-specific Synonym Lists, Information Technology, Mining General Terms, SIGIR 2010, Similar Precision Levels